Concluding chapter by the editor with the assistance of Mr. Henry Bessemer

List of patents granted to Henry Bessemer, 1838-1883, p. 329-332

Preface.--Early days.--The reward of invention.--Compressing plumbago dust, casting type, type-composing machine, etc.--Utrecht velvet.--The manufacture of bronze powder.--Improvements in sugar manufacture.--A holiday in Germany.--Improvements in glass manufacture.--The exhibition of 1851.--Early gunnery experiments.--The genesis of the Bessemer process.--The Bessemer process.-- Bessemer steel and Colonel Eardley Wilmot.--The Bessemer process and the War office.--Bessemer steel: the Armstrong controversy.--Bessemer steel guns.--Cast steel for shipbuilding.--Manganese in steel-making.--Ebbw Vale.--The Bessemer saloon steam-ship.--Conclusion

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